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Title: | Nigeria and Fernando Poo, 1958-1966, The Politics of Irridentism |
Author: | Akinyemi, A. Bolaji |
Year: | 1970 |
Periodical: | African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society |
Volume: | 69 |
Issue: | 276 |
Period: | July |
Pages: | 236-249 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Nigeria Bioko Equatorial Guinea |
Subjects: | foreign policy Politics and Government Inter-African Relations |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/720630 |
Abstract: | The decolonisation of the Spanish empire resulted in Fernando Poo and Rio Muni becoming the independent state of Equatorial Guinea in October 1968. Fernando Poo is an important consideration in Nigeria's foreign policy. First, it is a near neighbour; secondly, much of the labour on Fernando Poo coffee, cocoa and timber plantations is Nigerian by birth. Public concern over the treatment of the short-term migrants resulted in considerable pressure from political and press groups on the Federal government to take a tougher line with Spain and some argued for Nigerian annexation of the island. The government of Equatorial Guinea is determined not to antagonize Nigeria. Parts of the article: The pre-independence period, 1929/60 - The post-independence period, 1960/65 - Factors underlying Nigerian policy. Notes. |